Partner Solutions Architect - North America

About Us

We're looking for a Partner Solutions Architect to join the Field Engineering team and help scale dbt's partner go-to-market motion across North America. This role is focused on building technical and commercial momentum with both consulting and technology partners.

As a Partner Solutions Architect, you will work closely with Partner Development Managers to drive partner capability, field alignment, and pipeline across strategic SI and consulting partners as well as key technology partners such as Snowflake, Databricks, and Google Cloud. Internally, this role sits at the intersection of Field Engineering, Partnerships, Sales, Product, and Partner Marketing.

Responsibilities

• Partner closely with North America Partner Development Managers to execute joint GTM plans across technology and SI/consulting partners.
• Build trusted technical relationships with partner architects, sellers, and practice leaders
• Run partner enablement sessions, workshops, office hours, and hands-on technical trainings to improve partner capability and field readiness
• Support account mapping and seller-to-seller alignment between dbt and partner field teams to uncover and accelerate pipeline
• Help create and refine repeatable sales plays across themes like core-to-cloud migration, modernization, AI-ready data foundations, marketplace, semantic layer, and partner platform adoption
• Support partner-led and tri-party pipeline generation efforts including QBRs, innovation days, lunch-and-learns, hands-on labs, and local field events
• Equip partner teams with the technical messaging, demo narratives, architectures, and customer use cases needed to position dbt effectively
• Collaborate with dbt Account Executives, Sales Engineers, and regional sales leadership to drive co-sell execution in target accounts
• Act as a technical bridge between partners and dbt Product / Engineering by surfacing integration gaps, field feedback, competitive insights, and roadmap opportunities
• Serve as an internal subject matter expert on dbt’s major technology partner ecosystem, especially Snowflake, Databricks, and Google Cloud
• Contribute to the scale motion by helping build collateral, playbooks, enablement assets, and best practices that raise the bar across the broader Partner SA function

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in solutions architecture, sales engineering, consulting, partner engineering, or another customer-facing technical role in data and analytics
• Strong hands-on background in SQL, data modeling, analytics engineering, and modern data platforms
• Ability to clearly explain modern data stack architectures and how dbt fits across warehouses, lakehouses, semantic layers, and AI-oriented workflows
• Experience translating technical capabilities into clear business value for both technical and non-technical audiences
• Comfort operating in highly cross-functional environments across Sales, Partnerships, Product, and Marketing
• Strong presentation, workshop, and facilitation skills, including external enablement and customer-facing sessions
• Proven ability to drive outcomes in ambiguous, fast-moving environments with multiple stakeholders
• Experience supporting complex enterprise buying motions, proof-of-value work, or partner-influenced sales cycles
• Strong written communication skills for building collateral, technical narratives, and partner-facing content
• A collaborative mindset and a desire to help scale best practices across a growing team

What will make you stand out

• Experience working directly in partner, alliance, or ecosystem roles
• Experience with Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery / Google Cloud, AWS, or Microsoft Fabric in a GTM or solutions context
• Experience enabling systems integrators, consulting firms, or technology partner field teams
• Familiarity with cloud marketplace motions, co-sell programs, and partner-sourced pipeline generation
• Prior experience with dbt, analytics engineering workflows, or adjacent tooling in transformation, orchestration, governance, or metadata
• Strong instincts for identifying repeatable plays that connect enablement activity to measurable pipeline outcomes
• Ability to influence both strategy and execution, from partner messaging and field enablement to product feedback and GTM refinement
• A track record of building credibility quickly with partner sellers, partner architects, and internal field teams

Benefits

• Unlimited vacation (and yes we use it!)
• Pension coverage
• Excellent healthcare
• Paid Parental Leave
• Wellness stipend
• Home office stipend, and more!